Fertility in Costa Rica, 2025

Costa Rica
2025
Total fertility rate: 1.31
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2025 1995, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
Total fertility rate, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

Year

-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Costa Rica is projected at 1.31 children per woman in 2025 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (70 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.4 years old. In total, 50,630 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.31
Births
50,630
Births per 1,000 people
9.8
Mean age of mothers
28.4
Births to mothers aged 15–19
8.3%
Net reproduction rate
0.63
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.6
Population
5,152,950
The net reproduction rate counts only daughters who survive to their mothers' age: below 1, each generation of women is smaller than the one before.
Mother's ageBirths per 1,000 womenShare of total fertilityBirths
10-140.80.3%138
15-1923.79.0%4,185
20-2462.223.7%11,280
25-2970.326.8%13,750
30-3459.622.7%12,010
35-3935.413.5%7,279
40-449.83.8%1,911
45-490.40.2%77
50-540.00.0%0